So my friend studies general IT (he did application development with me for 4 years before this) and they arrived at web applications and servers.

They *have to* use MSSQL and windows 2008 servers because "that's the industry standard, also for the big companies!"

He asked if he at least could use Linux for his servers to his teacher: "oh I'd fucking love to but that's not allowed from higher up 😞"

😷

Industry standard? Well that's new to me :\

@hahaha1234 this is definitely not a "hahaha" situation 😡😜

@gitpush That exactly 😷

@linuxxx you better save your friend, or have him use Linux at home everyday before it is too late :p

@linuxxx I’m having the same problem. We have to use windows servers for our projects ._.

I have to use linux and mongo... and Java, JS

I used to use C#, Windows (still do at home) and MSSQL

Honestly I don't care anymore.... They're pretty much the same.

@billgates The point is that they call It an industry standard while most big companies (fb, google, Twitter etc) run on things like CentOS, BSD, Ubuntu, debian etc but not windows!

@linuxxx it will be funny if even Microsoft doesn't run Windows Server for security reasons XD

MsSQL is better than MySQL when it comes to HA

That's irritating. Those poor students...

At my university (at least in the IT department) employees can't even use Windows 10 and their exists no fucking Windows server (to my knowledge) - only a lot of Linux servers and clusters.

Windows server 2008 🤮

My school uses the same shit

Back when I was in app dev school we had to use asp.net/c# windows server etc, I think it's probably because Microsoft gives the school some sort or kickback for using there products in the teaching materials.

Anyone that has spent enough time with enough databases to have any kind of authority to speak on the matter...

... probably dropped out of college, if they ever went at all.

Tech people have to learn new things all the time. Not good now, won't matter in a long term.

@gitpush Their Azure platform runs on Linux based stuff for about 60 percent! Source: MS developer tweet

@linuxxx well they gotta follow the market, lets face it Windows VPSs are expensive due to requiring heavier hardware :\
I think this is why they went the Linux support way with dotnet, and SQL Server

@linuxxx just read your latest blog on your website, and was shocked about that like button tracking thing :\
I'm using Ghosty on FF Quantum do you recommend another one? I tried to install the one you recommended a month ago in a rant, but it doesn't have Quantum support and wasn't able to install and I forgot its name :\

I also use Catblock

@gitpush For blocking trackers, I'd recommend Privacy Badger (developed by the EFF). It is minimal invasive, such that it recognizes scripts (and cookies) that track you and blocks only these (which for example still enables sites which use more privacy sensitive ads to generate income) and it requires basically zero configuration.

Or alternatively there is uBlock, which attempts to block all scripts which aren't required for the page to work (thus blocking any ad by default).

I'm mentioning ads, because this is a very relevant aspect for me. I don't want refuse free web pages their income if it doesn't conflict with my privacy. Using a blocker which allows 'good' ads also creates an incentive for the industry to deploy this kind of privacy respecting advertisement.

Richard stallman was right about higher ups

@theCalcaholic thanks I installed privacy badger lets see how it works out :D

Tell me that, currently I'm handling a job where they fucking want me to develop a website using ages-old .net (I did it in .net core, but these retards weren't able to deploy the site)

@linuxxx Azure doesn't run on Linux, it runs on... Azure. Azure is literally the OS, it's a kernel tweaked for running many guest operating systems, much like VMware ESXi.

Some of their Azure tooling runs on CoreOS though, and they're a lot less linux-allergic than they used to be.

@bittersweet I meant the systems deployed onto it. I literally got this from Microsoft Developers Twitter account

@linuxxx Yeah of course, windows server as guest OS is retarded.

@gofrendi

I worked for Microsoft for one long dreadful summer. One of my reasons for leaving was the way they did business with educational institutes. It went as far as impersonating parents to voice concern over their kids "not working enough with MS Office", and placing Microsoft-minded employees undercover through small IT consultancy shell companies, hired by elementary/high schools & colleges to set up material for computer science classes. These propaganda-spreading engineers were called technology evangelists, and terms like spreading enlightenment and preaching the truth were often used.

I was asked to do this as well, refused, left shortly after that (under some pressure, I wasn't "positive and energetic enough to fit in the team"). It was a fucking creepy religious sect.

Looks like things have changed radically during the last 10 years, they act friendlier and work with competitors. But I still can't help smelling the religious cult-stench every time I see their logo.

I learned on Oracle DBs and now work in MSSQL. It's all the same shit. I really want to try out some of those fancy new non-relational DBMS's that I have been reading about.

@projektaquarius
Try MongoDB!

@gofrendi okay. I'm glad. Cuz a lot of what I have read non-RDBMS systems is that it is meant to replace RDBMS. And I have had to do to much complex database management to imagine that it was easier/better/more efficient/etc to use the alternatives.